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CHARLES E. TOPPING AND CHARLES H. SCUTT, OF MARION, NEV YORK.

MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,595, dated December31, 1889.

. Application filed September 1l, 1889. Serial No. 323,591. (No model.)

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Beit known that we, CHARLES E. TOPPING and CHARLES H. SCUTT, of Marion,in the county of Wayne and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in lashing-Machines, which improvement is fully setforth in the following specification and shown in the accompanyingdrawings.

Our invention relates to various improvements in a washing-machine forclothes operated by hand, said improvements being t hereinafter fullydescribed, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l isa side sectional elevation'of themachine sectioned as on the dotted line in Fig. 2, the beater beingshown in two positions by full and dotted lines; Fig. 2, a plan of themachine; Fig. 3, an end elevation seen and indicated by arrow y in Fig.l; Fig. 4, a view of a part of the wash-board drawnto a larger scale;Fig. 5, an enlarged view better showing the manner of holding therubbing-slats of the beater; and Fig'. 6, an enlarged View of across-section of a hanger for the beater,

taken as on the dotted line z in Fig. 1.

Referring to the parts, A is the box or body of the washing machinesupported upon legs B.

C is the beater forV the clothes, and D a re-` ceptacle for the clothesafter they have been put through a wringer. The body, which is box form,is formed with wooden sides a and a curved sheet-metal bottom Z). At thesides of the body are rigidly secured iron hangers or holders c for4 thebeater. The beater is formed of a main or body part, from the sides u ofwhich rise standards F, provided with a cross-rung d at the top, whichconstitutes a handle by which the beater is operated. The standards areeach provided with a horizontal outwardly-projecting trunnion e, whichtrunnions enter vertical grooves or channelsVv f f in the respectivehangers c. These trunnions hold the beater so that it may be rocked in avertical plane. The lower face or side of the beater is curvedandprovided with corrugated or beaded rubbing-slats or rubbers g,secured transversely thereto. These rubbing-slats are alternated withplain prismatic spacing-slats h, `employed for the purpose of spreadingthe rubbing-slats, so that the material being washed may enter thespaces between the rubbing-slats for the purpose of becoming moreeffectively rubbed or acted upon by the rubbing-slats-that is to say, byspacing the rubbing-slats by means of the bars 7i the beater presents amore uneven working-surface to the clothes and more rapidly washes them.Stay bars or ties d are employed to tie the sides of the beatertogetherto give it strength. Vhen the ,machine is not in use, the trunnions e ofthe beater rest at the bottom of the channels fin the respective hangersc; but when clothes areput into the machine the beater is raised by themto a greater or less extent, the trunnions occupying higher positions inthe channels of the hangers. These hangers are made vertical for somedistance above the body of the machine, for the purpose of permittingthe beater to accommodate itself to different quantities or thicknessesof clothes put into the machine, and still at all times to occupy apositionsubstantially concentric with the curved bottom of the body. Theverticalness of the channels permits the beater to constantly bear itsweight upon the clothes beneath it. The

yhangers are formed with other rests t' at their extreme ends for thetrunnions of the beater, so the latter may be turned over at one side,

orrplaced in theposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. l, for thepurpose of permitting the operator to examine or turn the clothes in themachine; and one side wall of each of the channels of the hangers isomitted at la, so that the beater may be lifted out of the body entirelywhen desired.

The wash-board G (shown in Fig. 4E) is composed of beaded rubbing-slatsg and plain spacing-slats 71., like those of the beater, held togetherby plain metallic strips Z, secured to the ilat faces of the slats.

ot are narrow horizontal dash-boards secured in inclined position to theinner face of the end board of the bodyA to prevent water being thrownout thereat by the action of the beater. At the opposite end of theb'ody the inclined bottom board o answers the same purpose. Thewashboard G is bent and placed in the body between said board o and thelowest one of the dash-boards n, as shown in Fig. l, the wash-boardbeing held by some IOO simple fastener, so as to be removed from themachine for the purpose of cleaning or repairing.

In constructing this machine the wooden rubbing-slats g are turned in alathe with alternate swelled parts p and reduced parts r, as shown inoutline in Fig. 4. These turned pieces are then split by being sawedthrough along` their respective axes. The half-pieces g so produced arethen used, as shown, to form the wash-board G, and the lower face of thebeater opposed to the washboard, the rounded or beaded surfaces of thehalves or slots of the beaters and the wash-board being turned towardeach other. These rubbing-slats are placed so that the swelled parts pof one slat alternate with the reduced parts r of the adjacent slat, asshown in Fig. 4. To avoid having nails where they will touch theclothes, we fasten the rubbing-slats to the beater by means of metalstrips t t, Figs. 2 and 5,1et edgewise into kerfs in the ends of theslats, the ends of the metal strips being bent down and nailed to theedges of the side boards u of the beater. These strips of metal restagainst the outer surfaces of the spacing-slats h, through both ot'which nails o are driven into the sides u. By this means all the slats,both beaded and plain, of the beater are held rnily to place withoutnails being driven into the rubbingslats g. The metal strips Z ot' thebottom rubbing-board or wash-board G, Fig. 4, are fastened to the slatsby small nails w in the bottom side of the board, which nails, when thewash-board is put to place in the body, come next to the bottom b of thebody and away from the clothes.

It is designed to secure an ordinary clotheswringer to the vertical endboard a of the body and pass clothes through it from the washing-machineinto the receptacle D. This receptacle may be a box or basket, as may bedesired, having pins b projecting from its sides to enter rests c in theside boards a of the body of the washing-machine. XVhen in place, thereceptacle rests from gravity against the legs of the washing-machine.Nhen thus constructed, the receptacle is detachable from the machine andmaybe detached and carried with its contents to the clothes-line orelsewhere.

The Water is let out of the body of the machine through a spout s ofcommon kind.

That we claim as our invention is A washing-machine having a box orbody, and a wash-board resting at the bottom thereof, said wash-boardbeing constructed of alternate plain and beaded slats, in combinationwith a beater within the body of the washing-machine having its sidefacing the wash board covered with alternated plain an d beaded slats,the latter being secured to the beater by means of metal strips passedthrough kerfs in the ends of said beaded slats and sccured to the sidesof the beater by fasteners passed through said metal strips and saidplain slats, substantially as shown.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands, this 2d day ofSeptember, 1889, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. TOPPING. CHARLES H. SCUTT. Vitnesses:

E. B. WHrrMoRE, M. L. MCDERMOTT.

